[Return to work of employees after a mental disorder].

Objectives: Returning to work often fails due to conflicting expectations and goals of the stakeholders involved. Due to their medical expertise and workplace-related knowledge, occupational physicians could effectively promote mutual understanding and cooperation between the stakeholders. The study aimed to develop a manual and training session for its application that will support occupational physicians to assume a mediating role in the integration of employees with a mental illness.

The Relationship of Medical Assistants' Work Engagement with Their Concerns of Having Made an Important Medical Error: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Objectives: We aimed to examine associations of work engagement with self-reported concerns of having made medical errors among medical assistants.

Methods: We used cross-sectional questionnaire data from 424 medical assistants in Germany (collected between March and May 2021). The nine-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale assessed the subdimensions vigor, dedication, and absorption.

Work-Related Intervention Needs of Medical Assistants and How to Potentially Address Them according to Supervising General Practitioners: A Qualitative Study.

Work stress is common among health care professionals and this observation also holds true for general practitioners (GPs) and their medical assistance staff in Germany. Therefore, prior studies have examined the work-related intervention needs of medical assistants (MAs). We sought to explore potential interventions that may help to address these needs according to GPs' views.

The Prevalence and Determinants of Being Offered and Accepting Operational Management Services-A Cohort Study.

In Germany, employers are obliged to offer "operational integration management" (OIM) services to employees returning from long-term sick leave. OIM aims to improve employees' workability and to prevent future sick leave or early retirement. This study examined (i) to what extent OIM services are offered to eligible employees, (ii) to what extent offers are accepted and (iii) the determinants of both outcomes.

Return to Work after Common Mental Disorders: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Expectations of the Involved Stakeholders.

Common mental disorders (CMDs) are risk factors for long-term sickness absence and unemployment. Therefore, return-to-work (RTW) processes have been introduced to facilitate the return of employees. As the success of RTW processes is considered to be determined by the cooperativeness of the involved stakeholders, we aimed to investigate the views of those stakeholders to disclose potentially diverging expectations.

Work-Related Intervention Needs and Potential Occupational Outcomes among Medical Assistants: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Medical assistants' (MAs) working conditions have been characterized as precarious, and workplace-related intervention needs have been identified. However, strategies to change the MAs adverse working conditions are mostly seen on an individual level, including leaving the employer or even the profession. Since such intentions are antecedents of actual turnover, we aimed to quantify the potential link of reported unmet intervention needs with unfavorable occupational outcomes.

Desired improvements of working conditions among medical assistants in Germany: a cross-sectional study.

Background: In outpatient care in Germany, medical assistants (MAs) are the contact persons for patients' concerns and their working conditions are relevant to their own health and the provided quality of care. MAs working conditions have been described as precarious leading to high levels of work stress. Consequently, we aimed to examine MAs' needs for work-related improvements.

Perceived Usefulness of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices at the Workplace: Secondary Analysis of Data From a Qualitative Study.

Background: Previous research suggests that psychosocial working conditions may detrimentally affect diabetes self-management behavior at work, including self-monitoring of glucose levels. We aimed to better understand the potential usefulness of continuous glucose monitoring devices at the workplace according to employees with diabetes.

Methods: We carried out secondary analyses of data from a qualitative study, which sought to explore potential barriers to and solutions for effective diabetes self-management at work.